United Mine Workers of America
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside Collection
Charles E. Boswell, Newspaper Editor, Essay regarding Miners at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek
In an unpublished essay, Boswell, editor of the Labor Argus (Charleston's Socialist newspaper) describes the mining labor troubles at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. He adamantly opposes Governor Hatfield's settlement and the role of the UMWA in accepting it. In particular he castigates Thomas Haggerty, a field marshal for the union, for compromising with capitalists.
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers
Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Consolidation Coal Company Clippings
Weekly compilations of photocopied news clippings prepared by the publicity department of Consolidation Coal Company. The clippings are taken from a wide variety of newspapers and document to a limited extent the coal industry nationally. Principally, however, the clippings focus on issues directly related to the company, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America, relying mainly on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia newspapers.
Dawson Coal Company Collection
Doug Yarrow and Charlotte Yablonski Appalachian UMWA Papers
This collection consists of papers and printed materials related to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and Black Lung Association. It also includes newspapers and legal documents related to the UMWA elections, Joseph A. Yablonski, Mingo County, and the protests against strip mining in Appalachia.
Edgar B. Rowe Papers
This collection consists of correspondence, decisions, and briefs of the umpire for the Northern West Virginia Coal Association, Big Sandy-Elkhorn Coal Operators Association, Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America.
Frank Stadlbauer, Collector, Records
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- Subject
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 22
- Union names. 18
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 18
- Coal mining. 16
- Coal miners 11
- Unions - UMWA. 11
- Politics and government. 9
- Account books 8
- Coal mining -- Strikes 8
- Coal mining - coal companies. 7
- Elections 7
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 6
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Unions. 6
- World War, 1939-1945 6
- Coal mining - Safety. 5
- Taxation 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- Coal mining - Medical care. 4
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Labor 4
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
- Mills and mill-work 4
- Railroads 4
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 4
- Broadsides. 3
- Coal mines and mining 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
- Kentucky 3
- Labor unions 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Logan County. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Physicians - letters and papers. 3
- Socialism 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Agriculture 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
- Coal - Mine safety. 2
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal - labor disputes. 2
- Coal industry. 2
- Coal miners - Medical care. 2
- Coal miners' trials. 2
- Coal miners--West Virginia 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
- Coal mining - disasters. 2
- Education 2
- Gas industry 2
- General stores 2
- Health services. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
- Maps. 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 2
- Unions -- Coal 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Appalachian Region 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Benham, Ky. -- Benham Employees Associations 1
- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - Miners for Democracy. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - company stores. 1
- Coal - labor relations. 1
- Coal - problems. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal companies - West Virginia. 1 + ∧ less